My Last Belmont

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Sightseek

The last time Belmont had the BC, it went perfectly smooth. You can't compare a Triple Crown on the line and the BC equally.

That's true. I spent three hours in the cluster*ck that was Saturday night, but I was also at the last Breeders' Cup at Belmont and that was a pretty smooth day. Though I drove out with a friend, and we bolted as soon as the Classic was over and were out in five minutes. I don't know what the train situation was like.

If I can continue to vent about the trains this weekend- NYRA is saying the whole thing wasn't their fault it's the LIRR's and the LIRR is saying wah wah wah everyone wanted to leave at the same time wah wah wah.

You know why everyone leaves at the same time, LIRR? Because you don't give out a schedule of when trains are departing; you just say you're running them until 9, which gets everyone panicked about making sure they're out by then. If you would actually schedule them, the same way you schedule the out bound trains in the morning/afternoon, and schedule them until 10, there'd probably be less of a huge pileup of people between 7 and 8.

And NYRA, you could help by keeping betting windows open and food concessions running for awhile after the last race so people are tempted to stay a bit longer. I'd much rather sit, eat something and continue to lose money betting on other tracks for a couple of hours than stand for the same amount of time in the dark and the humidity, hungry and thirsty because the lines were too long earlier in the day to get anything to eat.